Re: kill pidof question

[Wilko Fokken <wfokken@web.de>]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:27:17AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I frequently have to kill iceape - it locks up on some images.
> 
> Of course the command pidof iceape-bin will return the pid to standard
> output and I can then use this information to kill the program.
> Certainly it must be possible to combine these steps into a single
> command line but my efforts to do so have all failed.  Would some pro at
> scripting please set me straight?
> 
> Tom
> 

(from my old scripts, I found these lines:)

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
if [ -z `pidof iceape-bin` ]; then		## (returned zero)
    echo "IceApe not running"
fi

...

if [ -n `pidof iceape-bin` ]; then		## (returned non-zero)
    echo "IceApe is running"
fi
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 


hope this might improve your control

Wilko

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